How far are you going?
Heres my advice.
Strip the car, get some boxes or totes or what ever and document everything. Grab a refrigerator box or a stove box (they are nice and thick) and tape a sharpie and a pointy screwdriver to it, when you take out a bolt stick it in the box and write where it goes. Grab a couple boxes of ziplock bags the ones you can write on, and bag and box everything while making a list of what needs to be restored and what replaced.
I yank the trim, grills, lights, and glass, then doors, hood, decklid, and fenders (mark and keep every shim and know where they came from, if your car is still factory lined up and still has nice lines), get it all looked over seal any rust and set aside, then interior discard what is junk and keep track of with lists.
Yank the driveline all together, and under the hood parts, underneath parts, make some dollies to roll the car around on with no wheels or rear end. (its actually easier to move the car on casters than with wheels, I know people say they don't want to pull k member and rear axle because they want to be able to move the car, but casters are nice.)
Decide what you are doing with trunk hinges, I leave them in the car with a bar holding them down.
Now once the car is stripped its easy, if you are doing your own body work start there, get underneath, inside, the engine and passenger compartments cleaned and prepped, fix all the rust, don't worry about the outside of the quarters or roof, just get that body ready for paint and then jamb the entire shell (not the outside panels mask them off on the flats) with single stage urethane.
While thats being done, send out you steering box and pump(steer and gear), wiper motor (bruce ns1aar), tranny (jamie at passon), chrome parts, booster and master(I would just buy new), radiator (I would buy aluminum) and engine and rear end (if your not doing that yourself).
NOW you have a painted shell that you can start putting together, so restore and install your 1/4 glass, door strikers, wiper assembly, heater box, dash board, pedal set, console, column, seats, install new headliner, carpet, etc pretty much the entire interior can get done.
Also restore your entire K member, blast and paint it all, new bushings, brakes, etc. (great time to blast and paint everything else, hinges, bumper brackets, engine brackets, supports, etc.) Restore your engines auxiliaries, and all of them parts. Install your fuel system and what ever brake lines and wiring you have done.
So by the time you are done with that your, steering, motor and tranny should be done, get that all bolted up to the k member assembly and drop the car on it. and put on your front wheels. Also a good time to install the rear end.
Now you have a roller, with fuel tank, driveline, and interior installed. Pretty easy from here, now I would take the doors apart ( you may need to take doors apart sooner to send vent frames for chrome. I always have a pile of cores) and restore the mechanisms and set them aside, get the doors all stripped, sand and prime the inside of the door assembly, get your jamb area nice and neat, then spray just the jams finish color (wether you are doing black or body color or interior color, have them done). I would do the same with the fenders, get the inside all cleaned and sealed, don't worry about the outside yet.
Now, the part hate most, mount the doors, and line them up perfect, then the fenders, do as much of your lineup as you can (keeping the shims in order from being taken apart will help). Not sure if you are doing your own body but nows the time, sand and prep, I like to do deck lid and hood off the car, but I prefer doors and fenders be mounted, just personal preference, some people like it all off the car, some people want it all on.
At this point you can paint the car if you wanted, from here its all easy stuff, a little wiring, some plumbing, exhaust, coolant system, door assembly, lights, install front and rear glass, vinyl tops, trim, decals.
Not to bad of a process when you do it this way, take it from me a guy that has bought a lot of other peoples projects, the guys that finish are the guys with a plan, if you jump around and do a little from here and a little from there, you never finish it and if you do you tend to go over yourself a few times, take forever and hate the process..
being the car empty and stripped is a milestone, seeing the car jammed is a milestone, seeing the car with the firewall and dash installed is a milestone, feeling the car with the driveline and wheels on it is a milestone, seeing the car with a complete gut is a milestone, fenders and doors on, etc.. All stuff that keeps you going.
For me I send out very little, I used to rebuild the motors myself, but I don't anymore, but I do strip them myself and source the parts myself. I send the steering pump and box, I send the wiper motor, the tranny, and thats about it, I don't do headliners myself either but I have a guy that comes and does them for me at the shop, I restore my own dashes and everything else though.
So my first order of business is always get that stuff sent out and on its way so I am not waiting for parts. Now I know money is another issue. But if you do the math on what extra it costs to do it "all" vs just jamb it all black and bed liner not pull everything out and nut and boot it. You will be surprised how little it adds up to and how much more the car is worth.
A car like that I am thinking if you do the body work engine build all yourself it's $15k resto all day. Now if you send tranny motor and body out. Maybe $30k
